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Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

Jamie Dimon

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Jamie Dimon
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 13
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Any good job is a good job. This whole concept of a dead-end job? It's not true. I've heard it my whole life. Jobs lead to dignity. If you're good at the first, then you can get the second. Jobs lead to household formation. Jobs are a better solution for society.
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More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
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You have your own culture and your own ways of doing things. I hope Japan continues on this path.
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We did not anticipate the political fallout from it. We definitely didn't need it and we paid it back the first day we were allowed to.
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I'm a really big believer - this is not a statement about President [Barack] Obama, but whoever is president - that good policy is really important.
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We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.
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My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and send it to another vault. Then somebody said, Let's digitize it and have one vault. Now the DTCC clears and settles almost everything, and the cost of doing a trade is a tenth of what it was before.
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I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come from Democrats or Republicans.
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Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.
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I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.
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Well, if you were the American public, you saw a catastrophe. In general, you would say, The biggest institutions of America - Washington, broadly, and Wall Street, broadly - they're to blame. And, broadly, they're right.
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All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.
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Dodd-Frank and independent actions of banks go a long way in terms of progress on capital, liquidity, transparency, living wills (plans for winding down a bank in the event of a collapse) and resolutions.
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We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.
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I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?' They feel a tremendous pressure to grow. Well, sometimes you can't grow. Sometimes you don't want to grow. In certain businesses, growth means you either take on bad clients, excess risk, or too much leverage.
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We see very broad-based, moderate, growth. Most of the sectors are quite strong. I don't see any major potholes, and I believe [the economy] is strengthening.
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People always say to me, What if it doesn't work? If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.
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But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.
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The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.
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I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.
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